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<< Until that happens, let's not insist that one side fight with one arm behind their back when the same tactics are widely employed on the right. What are you

• majormajor 4y ago
  I really just want to see people drop the pretense. So back when I was in a far-right school, they had a clever trick for making sure speakers with different views didn't get heckled: they didn't invite them in the first place. Why expose your flock to a literal agent of evil, after all. It's clever! You avoid the ugly scene by removing even the ability for "free speech" you don't like! So in a country where that level of indoctrination and control of information is common and uncontroversial - indeed, often lobbied for through looser restrictions around charter and private schools and opposition to public schools - why am I supposed to be upset with the students at Stanford disagreeing with others and with administrators over who needs help spreading their views? Let's paint the full picture, instead. Currently in the US one side is ruthless and result-oriented and the other is prone to tripping over their own feet PR-wise in ways that the other party/church doesn't get called out on. The younger people on the left have seen that, and are bringing some of the same methods into their toolbox. And the right has the balls to call them out on it?
  • A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
    << I really just want to see people drop the pretense. I posit to you that pretense, and I am not really joking, is one the few things that is keeping this civilization going. I personally would like the pretense to go on.